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Author | : Aarti Wani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2016-02-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 131665950X |
Romantic love overwhelms 1950s Bombay cinema. Love and romance is evident in the themes, lyrics and visual aesthetics of films of the period, as it is in the publicity and gossip surrounding films and film stars. Love in cinema becomes significant when social reality constrains its quotidian experience and expression. By bringing a spectacular imagination of love to centre stage, the 1950s cinema deflected anxieties of 'Indianness' even as the new aesthetic and affect of romance offered an alternative engagement with the contradictions of modernity. Fantasy of Modernity: Romantic Love in Bombay Cinema of the 1950s explores the films, the songs, the stars and the extra-cinematic discourse of the period to read love and romance as its most productive trope that mobilized a dynamic and contested public sphere.
Author | : Aarti Wani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-02-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1107117216 |
Looks at the role of love in 1950s Bombay cinema in terms of its cultural function and its social significance.
Author | : Aarti Wani |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Love in motion pictures |
ISBN | : 9781316659663 |
Author | : Josephine Sharoni |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2017-07-03 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9004336583 |
Eschewing the all-pervading contextual approach to literary criticism, this book takes a Lacanian view of several popular British fantasy texts of the late 19th century such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, revealing the significance of the historical context; the advent of a modern democratic urban society in place of the traditional agrarian one. Moreover, counter-intuitively it turns out that fantasy literature is analogous to modern Galilean science in its manipulation of the symbolic thereby changing our conception of reality. It is imaginary devices such as vampires and ape-men, which in conjunction with Lacanian theory say something additional of the truth about – primarily sexual – aspects of human subjectivity and culture, repressed by the contemporary hegemonic discourses.
Author | : Susan Napier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2005-07-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134803354 |
Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in the nightmarish future depicted in the animated film masterpiece, Akira, and the pastoral dream worlds created by Japan's Nobel Prize winning author Oe Kenzaburo. A wide range of fantasists, many discussed here in English for the first time, form the basis for a ground-breaking analysis of utopias, dystopias, the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic.
Author | : Stefan Ekman |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2024-08-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1643150642 |
The first book-length historical and theoretical analysis of the urban fantasy genre
Author | : Nina Cornyetz |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780804732123 |
This is a materialist-feminist, psychoanalytic analysis of a modern Japanese literary trope—the dangerous woman, linked to archaisms and magical realms and found throughout the Japanese canon—in the works of three 20th-century writers: Izumi Kyoka (1873–1939), Enchi Fumiko (1905–86), and Nakagami Kenji (1946–92).
Author | : Jason Ray Carney |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476636141 |
Serious literary artists such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th century. And yet, working in the shadows cast by these modernists were science fiction, horror and fantasy writers like the "Weird Tales Three": H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard. They did not publish in artistically ambitious magazines like Dial, The Smart Set and The Little Review but instead in commercial pulp magazines like Weird Tales. Contrary to the stereotypes about pulp fiction and those who wrote it, these three were serious literary artists who used their fiction to speculate about such philosophical questions as the function of art and the brevity of life.
Author | : James Gifford |
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Release | : 2018-04 |
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ISBN | : 9781550583939 |
Author | : Jon Thompson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Crime in literature |
ISBN | : 9780252062803 |
Reading fiction from high and low culture together, Fiction, Crime, and Empire skillfully sheds light on how crime fiction responded to the British and American experiences of empire, and how forms such as the detective novel, spy thrillers, and conspiracy fiction articulate powerful cultural responses to imperialism. Poe's Dupin stories, for example, are seen as embodying a highly critical vision of the social forces that were then transforming the United States into a modern, democratic industrialized nation; a century later, Le Carré employs the conventions of espionage fiction to critique the exhausted and morally compromised values of British imperialism. By exploring these works through the organizing figure of crime during and after the age of high imperialism, Thompson challenges and modifies commonplace definitions of modernism, postmodernism, and popular or mass culture.